ICE employee guilty in $295k fraud scheme A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement employee has pleaded guilty to her role in a fraud scheme that bilked the agency out of about $295,000 through fake travel and lodging vouchers.
Prosecutors said 38-year-old Lateisha Rollerson, a former assistant to an acting ICE intelligence chief, admitted in federal court in Washington that she worked with other ICE employees to create fraudulent travel authorizations, receipts for hotels and other expenses, and timesheets. ICE then reimbursed the employees after they turned in the fraudulent documents.
Two former ICE intelligence research specialists and a former contractor have also pleaded guilty.
Pit bull bites 2 teens, is killed
Montgomery County police officers shot and killed a pit bull in Montgomery Village after it attacked two teenagers, police said.
Authorities said the dog bit a 15-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl in the 20400 block of Boulder Ridge Terrace at about 8:50 p.m. Tuesday. The dog was Tasered but continued to act aggressively, police said. Two officers then shot and killed the dog. The teenagers were taken to the hospital with what were believed to be minor wounds. The boy was bitten on his arm and leg, and the girl was bitten on her arm, leg and neck, police spokesman Capt. Paul Starks said.
— Emily Babay and Naomi Jagoda
